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Contains enough information about the country, ancient and modern, to

satisfy a voracious appetite, but it is not well arranged. Over one hundred illustrations, taken from photographs, have been admirably chosen, those of the

colossal ruins being most successful. The unclouded sky and vast stretches of level sand form a background against which these architectural masses stand out with startling effect. The reproductions are so clear that in many cases the hieroglyphic decorations can be seen. The imagination cannot but be spurred by these pictures to wonder what manner of men suffered, and satisfied in stone, such megalo- mania.